Poetry Challenge #163-The Answer is always Chocolate!

Now, what’s your question?

As if we need an excuse It’s National Chocolate Day. Yep! An entire 24 hours, 1440 minutes, not to mention seconds! At 1 chocolatey nibble per second that’s 86,400 nibbles! That’s my kind of day!

Like Willie Wonka, I think of the chocolate factory with chocolate trees and rivers. I imagine everything you can dip in chocolate.

My VCFA class, “Unreliable Narrators” splurged on a chocolate fountain, gobbled obscene quantities of chocolate dipped strawberries, marshmallows, cake, grahams, carrots, celery, radish . . . after donated it to the school. Writers require chocolate…

My VCFA class, “Unreliable Narrators” splurged on a chocolate fountain, gobbled obscene quantities of chocolate dipped strawberries, marshmallows, cake, grahams, carrots, celery, radish . . . after donated it to the school. Writers require chocolate PRN!

Poetry Challenge #163

The Answer is Always Chocolate

Write an acrostic poem, using the letters

C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E as the first letter in each line.

Your poem can be about chocolate or candy or anything else you want it to be—as long as it’s ooey, gooey delicious!

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing

Don’t Think Too Much About it; just indulge!

Chocolate as good to read as it is to nibble! & If you like yours chocolate dark, dip into Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War

Post a review, I’ll give you a glug!

Post a review, I’ll give you a glug!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than SIXTEEN HUNDRED days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments. And scroll down for my happy news:

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